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%NAME CLASSIFY DISTINGUISH DISCRIMINATE WHITE BLACK+960129
  %PREJUDICE JUDGMENTAL CONDEMNATION ALIENATION SIN 960129

     People are prone to classify,  name,  distinguish and
focus upon the  differences between people---more  so than
they are  to be interested in  the  features  which people
have  in  common---and  which  could  be  the  basis   for
cooperation and unity among people.

     Classification,  naming,  distinguishing and focusing
upon differences are ways of understanding,   manipulating
and controlling those objects which are classified, named,
distinguished and focused upon.

     Societies  can be characterized by how they  classify
people   into   social   classes---and  how   they   name,
distinguish and focus upon the differences between  social
classes,   casts,   economic  strata,   religious  groups,
educational  strata,   political factions,  saved  people,
dammed people,  good people, and evil people,  dispensable
people, and in-dispensable people.

     In  most  communities  there  are  distinctions  made
between  those who are in control and those who are not in
control---with  favors  granted mostly to  those  who  are
perceived to be in control---for reasons which are hard to
make out and justify in any clear way.    The reasons  are
not  clearly based upon reasoned principles of justice  or
upon  concerns for personal and communal integrity.    The
reasons  are  not clearly based upon  previous  thoughtful
consideration of likely consequences of probable outcomes.
The reasons seem to based upon confused considerations  of
dysfunctional experiences in previous dysfunctional  human
relationships of classification and control.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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